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There are so many creative ways to talk about being nude.

Buck naked is one that you may use often.

Except the phrase buck naked has a history that makes us want to

cover up completely.

This is too many black history.

What you didn't learn in school.

To be buck naked is to be free, or so we've been taught.

But the reality is that the term initially meant anything but freedom, particularly for black men.

Under enslavement, Buck was a racial effort that used against young, black, and indigenous men. When men were being sold, they

were stripped naked so enslavers could inspect them. The most muscular men were assumed to be

capable of producing the strongest offspring. Black men were treated like breeding animals. Once sold, enslaved black men were stripped

again, this time of their dignity and rights. Their bodies were placed at the disposal of their

enslavers. Little change after the abolition of slavery. Although the 13th Amendment abolished slavery, it allowed for involuntary servitude of incarcerated people.

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